Scott Churchill

Keynote Presenter

Biography

Scott D. Churchill (IHSRC conference committee) is a Professor of Psychology and Human Sciences at the University of Dallas, and Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Humanistic Psychologist, past President of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, former Secretary-Treasurer of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and founding member of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry, on whose executive committee he currently serves as liaison to APA’s Division 5. Dr. Churchill continues to serve on the editorial boards for several journals, and has presented seminars and workshops on phenomenological and hermeneutic methods in the USA, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Australia, and India. His recent work has included reflections on empathy and the “second person perspective” in a variety of contexts, ranging from human-bonobo interaction to qualitative research interviews to the experience of film and caring for the elderly. The American Psychological Association presented him in 2013 with its “Mike Arons and E. Mark Stern Award for Outstanding Lifetime Service to the Society for Humanistic Psychology” ; and, i n 2014 he was co-named with the University of Dallas Psychology Department as recipient of the APA’s “Charlotte and Karl Bühler Award for Significant and Lasting Contributions to Humanistic Psychology.”